TRAVEL WRITING 2.0: Earning Money from your Travels in the New Media Landscape [Paperback]

Tim Leffel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1609101081 | ISBN-13: 978-1609101084 | Publication Date: July 30, 2010

This is the first guide to earning money from travel writing in a media landscape turned upside down. With stories and advice for dozens of working travel writers, editors, and publishers, Travel Writing 2.0 leads readers on a path to success straddling print and electronic media. Written by Tim Leffel, a successful writer, book author, editor, and blogger.

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Splinter Press (July 30, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1609101081
• ISBN-13: 978-1609101084
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tim Leffel is an award-winning travel writer, author, and value travel expert who is frequently quoted in the major media. He has circled the globe three times and dispatched articles from five continents. He is editor of the highly regarded webzine PerceptiveTravel.com and also edits the Practical Travel Gear blog (www.PracticalTravelGear.com). See more at www.TimLeffel.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Guidebook to Success in Travel Writing!, November 15, 2010

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jeannie (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TRAVEL WRITING 2.0: Earning Money from your Travels in the New Media Landscape (Paperback)

Travel Writing 2.0 is an invaluable book for anybody who wants to become a professional travel writer. Tim Leffel prescribes a thorough explanation of the steps you will need to consider to become successful. Mr. Leffel provides great insight about the various publication outlets that are available within the travel writing industry. He also offers experienced advice and tips on how you may become a proficient travel writer "in the new media landscape". The "new media landscape" refers to the change in the way people consume information; from print to digital.

Travel Writing 2.0 also includes advice and tips from many well known names and figures of the travel writing and publishing community like Johnny Jet, Grace Fujimoto, Sean O'Neil, David Farley, and Lara Dunston. He also provides a great list of resources of books for further reading and websites to check out and people you should get to know.

Mr. Leffel advises various ways to building up your writing portfolio, or clippings. He also discusses marketing and how that is heavily related to your success. Mr. Leffel makes no bones about the hard realities and the efforts that are required to become a professional travel writer, especially if you plan to earn a comfortable living from it. Whether you are curious, or serious about a career in travel writing, Travel Writing 2.0 will point you in the right direction towards success.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Travel Writing Advice Book I've Read, December 8, 2010

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Mike Gerrard "Author of Strip till Dead" (Green Valley, Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Travel Writing 2.0: Earning Money From Your Travels in the New Media Landscape (Kindle Edition)

I've read a lot of books offering advice on travel writing - and have even written one myself. But mine, like the others, is dated and doesn't deal with the travel media world as it is today. This book does. I learned a lot from it, and as I've been a full-time travel writer for about 20 years, that says something.

I enjoyed the many interviews with successful travel writers, willing to share their information about what they're doing and how they do it. Not all of them are into writing for websites and doing blogs. Some stick with the printed media and do it successfully. Others blend the two. Others think outside the box and come up with different ways of getting paid for your travel writing.

If you're at all interested in breaking into travel writing, or even if you're already a successful travel writer, you'll still find this book well worth the investment.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent information, December 8, 2010

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N. Lucero "El Chilango" (Mexico City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TRAVEL WRITING 2.0: Earning Money from your Travels in the New Media Landscape (Paperback)

If you have any interest in a career as a travel writer, buy this book! The author not only gives you the nuts & bolts,
but a hammer, screw driver and pliers as well. He paints a realistic picture of the difficulties in this age of diminishing print
media, but also offers hope via dozens of quotes from successful writers. The author's voice comes through well making this
book more entertaining to read than most 'how to' books.